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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781170468685Author Edward WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 281g

Currently there is a movement in linguistics towards careful use of corpora in linguistic and text analysis, which has involved both written and spoken corpora and those which combine spoken and written text. Most text analyses address written texts -...

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In a time when the increasing cultural diversity and population mobility of the continent calls for good communication skills, this fascinating book features a wealth of data and critical opinion on the topic of mother tongue education.In the first part...

The papers in this volume, selected through peer-review from the presentations at the 2002 annual conference of the British Association for Applied Linguistics in Cardiff, demonstrate the strides applied linguists have taken, in 'pure' or 'impure' form,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773408708Author Edward CallaryFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Em TextsPublisher Em TextsWeight(grams) 152g

Alliteration occurs in a wide variety of contexts in stress-initial languages, including Icelandic, Finnish and Mongolian. It can be found in English from Beowulf to The Sun . Nevertheless, alliteration remains an unexamined phenomenon. This pioneering...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814253045Author Sandro SessaregoFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 272g

This volume addresses some of the most important approaches to the following key questions in contemporary generative syntactic theory: What are the operations available for (syntactic) structure-building in natural languages? What are the triggers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013294594Author Stefan MullerFormat HardbackPage Count 872Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

An Introduction to the Languages of the World is a text designed to introduce beginning linguistics students, who now typically come to their study with little background in languages, to the variety of the languages of the world. Lyovin begins by...

The Michif language - spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada - is considered an "impossible language" since it uses French for nouns and Cree for verbs, and comprises two different sets of...

This book provides a clear and comprehensive description of the Ocotepec/Tapalapa variant of Chiapas Zoque. Zoque is one of the two major branches of the Mixe-Zoquean language family, spoken in the southern part of Mexico. Until the Spanish conquest in...

Offering a new perspective on the British experience of the Second World War in Europe, this book provides a series of snapshots of the role which languages played in the key processes of British war-making, moving from frameworks of perception and...

This collection of essays on the pidginization and creolization of language is taken from a conference held at The University of the West Indies in April 1968. Its editor, Dell Hymes, was an incredibly influential sociolinguist and anthropologist in his...

Researching Language in Schools and Communities is designed for those who intend to carry out and/or study research in children's language development, teaching English as a second language, children's literature, casual conversation, social class and...

Men and the Language of Emotions challenges the commonly held association of rationality with masculinity, involving distancing from the language of emotions. Drawing on a study of heterosexual men talking about their life and relationships, he...

In On Nature and Language Noam Chomsky develops his thinking on the relation between language, mind and brain, integrating current research in linguistics into the burgeoning field of neuroscience. This 2002 volume begins with a lucid introduction by the...

Languages can be similar in many ways - they can resemble each other in categories, constructions and meanings, and in the actual forms used to express these. A shared feature may be based on common genetic origin, or result from geographic proximity and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013291852Author Louis De SaussureFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

This book provides a fascinating account of the psycholinguistic and social factors behind variation in speech timing in US English. With detailed discussions of its methods and data, it also acts as a valuable model for conducting corpus (socio)phonetic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674281158Author Charles Hall GrandgentFormat HardbackPage Count 215Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 408g

This book shows that every language has an adjective class and how such classes vary. The opening chapter considers current generalizations about the nature and classification of adjectives and sets out the cross-linguistic parameters of their variation...

Linguists and lawyers from a range of countries and legal systems explore the language of the law and its participants, beginning with the role of the forensic linguist in legal proceedings, either as expert witness or in legal language reform...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013293313Author Bartosz WilandFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

These concise lectures have been developed and refined over a period of ten years as the basis for the author's senior and first-year graduate course on language contact. They provide factual information on and interpretations of a topic of obvious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940753150Author Michael BarlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Athelstan PublicationsPublisher Athelstan PublicationsWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013291951Author Dakota J Thomas-WilhelmFormat HardbackPage Count 338Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013291258Author Martin SchaferFormat HardbackPage Count 418Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013291937Author Atsuko UtsumiFormat HardbackPage Count 436Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013294556Author Johannes DellertFormat HardbackPage Count 380Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674730236Author Roger BoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 965Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 835g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940753310Author Michael BarlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Athelstan PublicationsPublisher Athelstan PublicationsWeight(grams) 172g

The papers in this volume exemplify various degrees of computer participation in several fields of linguistics. The book is organized in terms of the two fundamental capabilities of the computer: data-processing problems and systems problems.Book...

The author reports on a qualitative, action-research project on theories and practices in foreign language education. The goal of the study was to relate the knowledge of foreign language teaching, learning, and acquisition gained through research to the...

This book studies interpreting between languages as a discourse process and as about managing ccommunication between two people who do not speak a common language. Roy examines the turn exchanges of a face-to-face interpreted event in order to offer a...

Every language has some syntactic means of distinguishing a negative from a non-negative sentence. This ability may be expressed in different ways. Zanuttini's goal is to characterize the range of such variation by comparing the variations exhibited by...

This collection focuses on Chinese learners with original data sets using innovative research methods. It investigates Chinese learners' learning and language skills, perceptions and particularly the processes of reciprocal intercultural adaptations in a...

Dr Atkinson's work has grown out of a deep satisfaction with the state of theorising in child language development. Critical analysis of superficially attractive theories showed that they had no real explanatory power. Yet no coherent framework had been...

This is a study of how children acquire language and how this affects language change over generations. Written by an international team of experts, the volume proceeds from the basis that we can not only address the language faculty per se within the...